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Weekly Report - 26 January 2017 (WR-17-03)

VENEZUELA: Venezuela – most corrupt – silent on Odebrecht

Venezuela is one of the most corrupt countries on the planet, according to the 2016 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) of Transparency International (TI). The US Department of Justice suggests that the disgraced Brazilian firm Odebrecht paid out US$98m in bribes to corrupt government officials and intermediaries in the administrations led by the late Hugo Chávez (1999-2013) and the incumbent Nicolás Maduro – yet Venezuela is the only country in the region that has not yet launched an investigation.

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